Improvement in covered table-wares



H. C. WILDX. Covered Tabla/Ware.

' Patentndlan.12,187f

` UNITED S'IA'rns PATENT 'OFFICE HORACE CN'ILCOX, OF vWEST'MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OESAME PLACE.

iMPRQVEMENT IN COVERED TABLE-WARES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,661, dated January 12, 1875; application led v l August 2B, 1874. f

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HoRACE C. WILCOX, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvcnted a new Improvement in Covered Table-Ware; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked ther'con', -to'bc a full', clear, and exact description of the same, and which lsaid drawing constitutesy part "of'this specification, and represents a side view.

This invention relate-s to an improvement in that class of tableware which has a removable cover, particularly designed for butterdishes and like purposes, theobject being to raise the cover bodily from the dish without det-aching it therefrom; and'the` invention consist-s in attaching the `cover to a vertical slide, whereby the cover may be raised vertically from the dish, and held suspended until V closed by forcing down the cover.

A isthe' base, from which rise two nprights, B B C,a dish, which is attached tothe luprights-or base, or any convenient arrangement for its support. D is the coverf; E E, a slide working upon theA uprights,so1as to be moved up and down, as denoted by the broken lines. To this slide the cover is attached: Theslide moves upon the uprights with suticient friction to retain it in a raised position. For convenience, the, slide is carried up in the ,form ofv a handle, F, by which to Itransport thedish, as well'as to raise the covr.

The form of the dish or the. support of the parts have nothing to do with this invention, it only beingessential that they be in substantially the relative postondescribed; hence the form shown in the `drawimg.; is only for convenience of illustration.A

I am aware that articles of table-service havenbefore beeny made with thecovers arranged to be raised vertically from tthe' dish, and ,supported at a fixed elevated. position,as in the patent'of HL S. and F. M. Goff, July 14, ISGS. I therefore do not wishto be'under= rtood as broadly claiming thearrang'ement of the cover of table-ware so that it may be raised and supported vertically above the dish.

I 'claim as my invention- In combination with a dish, C, provided with one or more vertical guides,the cover D, provided with corresponding frictional slide, whereby the said vcover may be held at any point of elevation between its two extremes, substantially as described. Y

HORACE C. WILCOX.

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